There has been one more death from COVID-19, bring­ing the na­tion­al toll to 128 per­sons, the Min­istry of Health re­ports in its lat­est up­date.

This is the first COVID-19 death for 2021, as the last one was re­port­ed on Thurs­day 31st De­cem­ber 2020.

And in its up­date for to­day, Sat­ur­day 9 Jan­u­ary 2021, the health min­istry al­so is con­firm­ing 25 new pos­i­tive cas­es of COVID-19, bring­ing the to­tal num­ber of ac­tive cas­es in the coun­try to 272 pa­tients.

These new cas­es re­flect sam­ples tak­en be­tween Wednes­day 6th and Fri­day 8th Jan­u­ary 2021.

The Health Min­istry al­so notes in its up­date:

● 24 per­sons are still hos­pi­talised for COVID-19; up from 22 pa­tients on Fri­day.

● 217 per­sons are in home self-iso­la­tion; up from 214 pa­tients on Fri­day.

● 232 per­sons are in State quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ties; up from 223 pa­tients on Fri­day.

● 12 pa­tients are still re­cov­er­ing in step/down fa­cil­i­ties; down from 15 pa­tients on Fri­day.

The fol­low­ing is the com­plete clin­i­cal up­date from the Min­istry...

TRINIDAD AND TO­BA­GO COVID-19 (NOV­EL CORO­N­AVIRUS) UP­DATE #599

As part of the na­tion­al dri­ve to safe­guard the health of the Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion in the face of the glob­al COVID-19 out­break, the Min­istry of Health con­tin­ues to pro­vide up-to-date in­for­ma­tion on the coun­try’s sta­tus in this re­gard.

The fol­low­ing is a clin­i­cal up­date as at 4 pm on Sat­ur­day 9 Jan­u­ary 2021. The pop­u­la­tion is re­mind­ed to re­ly sole­ly on in­for­ma­tion from of­fi­cial sources, such as the Min­istry of Health.

Update courtesy Ministry of Health.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic are re­mind­ed that they must ad­here to the ‘New Nor­mal’ rec­om­men­da­tions and take the fol­low­ing per­son­al health mea­sures to pro­tect them­selves and their loved ones from COVID-19:

●   Wear a mask over your nose and mouth when you go out in pub­lic

●   Keep your dis­tance from oth­ers (6 feet)

●   Stay home if you are ill

●   Clean then sani­tise sur­faces (e.g. table­tops, door knobs and cell phones)

●   Wash your hands of­ten with soap and wa­ters or use an al­co­hol-based hand sani­tis­er

●   Cough in­to a tis­sue or in­to the cook of your el­bow

●   Avoid touch­ing your face

If you or a loved one de­vel­ops symp­toms of COVID-19, please call the hot­line 877-WELL or 800-WELL (9355) for fur­ther guid­ance.

If the per­son is se­vere­ly ill, call the 811 (emer­gency hot­line) or call ahead to the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of your near­est hos­pi­tal for help and go in im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go will con­tin­ue to up­date the pub­lic via its of­fi­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels such as:

●  The Min­istry of Health’s web­site (health.gov.tt);

●  The Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions web­sites (moc.gov.tt and news.gov.tt); and

●  The rel­e­vant so­cial me­dia pages of these en­ti­ties (Face­book, Twit­ter and In­sta­gram).